About Me and This Blog

I've been a vegetarian for almost six years now. For the first four years, I was a pescetarian (I ate fish). These days, I lean towards veganism and am very passionate about animal rights and welfare. Before going veg, I ate A LOT of meat. In fact, I had a bumper sticker on my first car that read "If we're not supposed to eat animals, then why do they taste so good?" Yeah, I was that person. I loved cooking meat, now I love cooking vegetarian EVEN MORE.

I post a lot of stories about animals and veggie food on facebook, and friends started asking me for recipes and more information on how to be a healthy vegetarian. This blog is my answer to those questions. Most if not all of the recipes can be made vegan by omitting cheese or subbing with vegan "cheese". Email me anytime.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving (Canadians)!

Ugh - I ate so much last night I'm STILL full...that is the first time I can honestly say I ate for two, and I've been regretting it ever since.  As in most previous years, the bf and I participated in an orphan dinner with friends - those of us without close family in the Vancouver area each chipped in with a few dishes.  My contribution was my usual scalloped potatoes (to die for - recipe here), brussel sprouts, vegetarian gravy and some "chicken" legs from Veggie Favor - the place I've raved about in this blog in the past.  They are really amazing, and even one of last night's meat eaters ate 2 or 3 of them!  Friends chipped in with turkey for the meat eaters, regular gravy, two types of stuffing (one veggie, one meaty), glazed carrots, buns and pumpkin pie with cool whip (a weakness of mine).  Honestly, it was fabulous. But ugh. STILL so full.


Scalloped Potatoes (NOT vegan)

I got this recipe from a Bon Appetit magazine that was mistakenly delivered to our address.....for about 8 months  :)   To be fair, I'm not sure I would bother making these EVER if I didn't have a kick-ass mandolin slicer (or V-slicer) - it would just be too much work to thinly slice all the potatoes and fennel. Happily, I DO have a kick-ass mandolin that was worth every penny I spent on it, so this takes maybe 10 minutes to assemble. It is always a huge hit.  I will be making it again at Christmas!

Link here - all credit to Bon Appetit magazine :)

http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2009/11/scalloped_potatoes_and_fennel
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